Question

What can you infer about the speaker's feelings toward her father? why doesn't she try to intervene in the conflict between her parents? read the poem "Without Title" by diane glancy

Answer 1

Answer:

This poem seems to have Glancy´s father, a Cherokee man, as the main character, and Glancy herself as the narrator. She sadly reflects about her father´s struggle to maintain his native American identity while living a westernized existence.

Explanation:

The conflict between her parents seems to be out of the narrator´s hands because she was probably just a child when the conflict described happened.

Answer 2

Following WWII, the U.S. government's Municipal Re-positioning Program guaranteed Native Americans better occupations if they moved to urban communities and endeavored to join a standard society. In "Without Title", the speaker's dad moved from the land and life he wanted to the city. In the lyric, the speaker appears to detect a major loss of culture. The speaker's dad appears to have an attachment with his legacy; however, no physical indications appear. This suggests that the natives suffered a cultural loss. "Without Title" proposes an identity topic or the need or loss of personality.  

As we know, the individual character remains solid when a man feels associated with the society, family, and customs. The speaker of the poem is particularly influenced by his dad's diligent work and appreciates the culture he belongs to. She commends each activity his father does in order to live and sustain the family.  

The representation of the character of the speaker's dad demonstrates that the man was constantly faithful, mindful and dealt with his family, despite the fact that nobody appeared to mind or give him recognition. The family presumably underestimated him. These discrete delays make a sensational impact on the reader’s brain. The entire part indicates how the father truly accepted and had confidence in his ancestral conventions, which the author cannot relive while creating the poem. Everything helps him to remember his American innate culture. The storyteller couldn't physically observe his dad's misfortune; however, she could feel its essence. This represents how her dad's principles are yet alive in his fantasies and in his spirit. The accompanying last lines of the lyric extend the considerations displayed by the artist:

I heard his buffalo grunts like a snor; this simile represents how the dad's customs are as yet alive in his fantasies and in his spirit.  

The above-mentioned description yells the speaker’s sane feelings towards her father. Moreover, the topic of why the writer did not intervene between the couple is elaborately expressed by the poet in the lines below:

Without vision … migrated … city

and … work … packing house.

When … brought … his … hides

… mother said  

… rid of them.

From the above lines, it may be concluded that the writer was aware of the fact that relocating with no vision of the future in mind, is not a good additive to the memory of his father. Still, somehow, she manages to extend the details no further and supposedly acts respectfully as it is not polite to intrude in a relationship.